pälkähtää päähän

== Finnish == === Alternative forms === pälähtää päähän === Verb === pälkähtää päähän to come to mind, spring to mind, cross one's mind, occur [with adessive or allative or genitive or possessive form ‘to’] (to come or be presented to the mind) ==== Usage notes ==== Normally used in the third person, since the thing that comes to mind is the subject of the sentence. There are two alternative ways to indicate the person to whom something occurs (both are shown in the usage examples above): as an adverbial in the adessive or allative case as a genitive attribute defining the word päähän. If the person is indicated with a personal pronoun, a possessive suffix must be added to päähän'. The personal pronoun may be omitted in first and second person: ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== juolahtaa mieleen tulla mieleen